for Manchejier and Salford. 1 6 j 



and by the humane and fkilful treatment of the 

 v/orthy phyficians who have attended them*. 



That the progrefTive increafe of the number of 

 inhabitants of Manchefter and Salford may be 

 the better apparent, I have divided a period of 

 twenty-one years intofevenfmaller periods of three 

 years each, and have given the annual number 

 of regiftered chriftenings, marriages and burials, 

 during eachof thefe. And, from thefc premifes, I 

 fhall afterwards endeavour to form fome calcu- 

 lation of the prefent number of our inhabitants, 

 compared with that of the year 1773. 



TABLE I. . 



Shewing the average, annual Number of 

 Registered Christenings, Marriages, anii 

 Burials, for Periods of three Years each, from 

 1765 to 1785, inclufive — Fraftions omitted. 



CHRISTENINGS. 



1765, 1766, 1767 - - 900 



1768, 1769, 1770 - - 1002 



* About this time a very ufeful extenfion of the cha- 

 rity, afforded by this excellent inftitution, was agreed to 

 by the truftees. All difeafes of an infeftious nature being 

 wifely excluded from admiflion into the infirmary, many 

 unhappy objeds were neceffarily excluded from the benefit 

 of the affiftance, afforded in other cafes. The phyficians, 

 therefore, humanely offered to vifit them at their own 

 houfes, provided the truftees would allow them to be fur- 

 nifhed with medicines from the hofpital. The benevolent 

 propofal was accepted, to the great comfort of the poor. 



M 2 1771^ 



